Out of Congress as of last week, former Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-New Orleans, plans to reopen his law practice and has talked with Kenneth Feinberg,
the administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, about doing some
work with the agency helping to resolve oil spill claims brought by
Vietnamese fishers, who represent a sizable slice of the Gulf shrimping
community.

Feinberg spokeswoman Amy Weiss said, "Rep. Cao did make a
proposal to Mr. Feinberg and it's currently under advisement."

Cao, the
first Vietnamese-American to serve in Congress, once suggested at a
congressional hearing that Lamar McKay, the president of BP America,
might want to consider committing hara-kiri for all the damage his
company had caused to the Gulf, a suggestion that was influenced by the
deep depression suffered by some Vietnamese fishers, who he said
contemplated taking their own lives after the disaster.

Cao also will be
teaching a course in the spring semester at Tulane University's School
of Continuing Studies on "Law in American Society."